From: "Geo" 

Yes it shows as greyed out in regedt32 and regedit allows me to look inside
the properties key. The permissions are really simple, system full control
and no others. I'm logged in as admin when I try to look.

Geo.

"Gregg N"  wrote in message
news:Xns961DE0B237A23gregginvalidinvalid{at}216.144.1.254...
> "Geo"  wrote in news:423b9233{at}w3.nls.net:
>
> > My system allows me to see inside the keys with regedit but not with
> > regedt32
>
> Are you sure it is not just a view option setting in regedt32, and that
you
> can really see it in both? Is the key actually grayed out in regedt32?
>
> What are the permissions on that key on your system? Could you be running
> regedt32 and regedit from two different accounts?
>
> BTW, I just discovered that XP has a command line tool for reading and
> writing the registry:
>
> reg query hklm\system\controlset001\control\class\
> {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\Properties
>
> Gregg

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